MULTIPLE ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA ISOLATED FROMAL-RAMADI CITY.

Abstract

One hundred clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were isolated from230 clinical samples taken from inpatients and out patient in general hospital inAl-Ramadi City during 2001 and 2002. These isolates were collected from ears,wounds and pus swabs as well as urine samples,then tested for susceptibility toeleven antibiotics ,(Ampicillin,Carbencillin,Gentamycin,Chloramphenicol,Cephalothin.Tetracyclin,Amoxcicillin,Streptomycin,Tobromycin,Cefataxim andCiprofloxacin).Most of the isolates were with high resistant to different antibiotics,showed that 69.3% of the isolates were resistant to Tetracycline and 70.8%resistant to Cephalpthin, whereas they showed lowest resistant againstGentamicin, Cefataxim and Ciprofloxacin (20.6,21.8,22.4)%respectively.The resistant percentage was differ among all isolates collected from differentsamples. The isolates of wounds swabs showed the greatest resistance (78.5%)against Tetracycline , in contrast, the lowest resistance (4.7%) was appeared withisolates collected from pus swabs against Ciprofloxacin. The pattern of multipleantibiotics resistance have distributed between the resistance to the two antibioticsTetracyclin and Cephalpthin (50%) and to all antibiotics used (2%).